<TITLE>10. Par 31-35</TITLE>L-31 And now remember, Cain wasn't an infidel. Cain was a believer. This is going to shake the gizzard out of you. I hope it does, some of you fundamentalists, and puts a heart in you (That's right.), a heart of belief.
Notice. Cain was religious and a believer. He come up and built an altar to the Lord, with just as much faith, as what Abel did. "But there is a way that seemeth right unto a man..." Now, you'll understand, after while, why I'm a holy-roller.
Now watch. He came up and built an altar unto the Lord with the sincerity of his heart. And he went out and got the best fruits he had and laid them on the altar, probably decorated the altar all up with beautiful flowers. I could prove that in a little bit, wouldn't take me but a minute. But beauty is one of the most deceitful things there is.

L-32 Satan got the same idea and wanted a more beautiful kingdom than Michael, when he went over and set up his kingdom in the north. That's the nature of him. Here's his own boy down here with his same nature.
Cain, there he was. He goes up there and builds this altar. He goes out, probably, and gets the great big calla lilies off of that ground that had just recently been cursed, placed them all over the altar.
Puts you in a mind of a good--of one of these modern churches today. On Easter, everybody comes to church. They buy a little Easter flower and lay them on the altar, all along. God don't want the Easter flower on the altar; He wants you on the altar. The altar was made for man, not for flowers.

L-33 But what's the matter today, you've took the altar out of the church, and put it down in the basement. And the only fire you got on the--left, is in the basement. Hallelujah. What we need's an old upper room experience, where God pours out His Holy Ghost power and fire, like He did in the beginning.
But all we got today is what we've got in the furnace, the iron. Pentecost is getting as bad. Now, that's the truth.
Now, I notice. Here is what God did. Cain comes up. He offers in his offering. Now, if God only requires a church membership, Cain had it. If God requires sincerity, Cain had it. And then if God requires a sacrifice, Cain did it.

L-34 And then, after he got his sacrifice, his altar, his church, everything ready, beautiful, probably a lot more beautiful than Abel's was... But God doesn't dwell in beauty made by hands. The beauty of holiness is where God dwells in, where the power of the Holy Spirit... Yes.
Then notice. Then after he'd made his altar, made his sacrifice, joined church, the sincerity of his heart... "That's a pretty good fellow," we'd call him today. He'd make a dandy fundamentalist. All right.
Here he comes, then he kneels down. Reason I rapped that, because that's what I was. See? Now, notice... And I am yet fundamental, but there is some more goes with it. Like the old colored man eating the watermelon, said, "That was good, but there's some more of it." That's right.

L-35 Notice. He knelt down and he worshipped God. He had a church, a membership. He had a altar, had an sacrifice. And he worshipped God. If God only requires you to go to church, and to be a believer, put your name on the book, pay into the church every year, and worship God, Cain was just as just as Abel was, and God was--was--should be condemned for condemning Cain. That's right.
But notice. Oh, he made things beautiful. He built a great big fine place, I guess, and fixed it all up, ignorant enough to believe that it was apples that took him out of the garden of Eden. I said... I say this, not for no smutty remark, but if eating apples caused the women to realize they were naked, it's time to pass the apples again. That's exactly right. Yes, sir. It wasn't no more apples than nothing else.


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